Unloading attachment for cars



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J. s. HARSI-IMAN. v UNLO'ADING ATTACHMENT FOR CARS.

'No. 413.783. I Patented 0 1;. 29. 1889.

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UNLOADING ATTACHMENT FOR CARS.

.No. 413,783. Patented Oct. 29, 1889.

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to unload the car.

UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JONATHAN S. HARSI-IMAN, OF HARSHMAN, OHIO.

UNLOADI NG ATTACHMENT FOR CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,783, dated October 29, 1889.

Application filed August 28, 1889. Serial No. 322,232. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JONATHAN S. HARSHJ MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Harshman, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Unloading At tachments for Cars; and I do declare the fol lowing to be a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to unloading attachments for cars; and it consists in the. construction and novel combination of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l'is a view in per-. spective of a portion of a coal-car, showing my unloading attachment applied to one end thereof. Fig. 2 is a View in perspective of the hinge-rod used to connect the attachment to the sides of the car-body at the end of the latter. Fig. 3 is the sheet-metal shovelingplate or guide-rest for the shovel to rest upon andguide it into the coal when commencing Fig. 4 is a sectional view showing the shoveling-plate elevated, and Fig. 5 is a modification.

The object of the invention is to provide a chute for unloading coal-cars, and also box cars, when the stuff or material is of such a nature that it must be unloaded by the aid of a shovel and that a shovel cannot be insorted into the material to be unloaded until has a sufficient amount of the material has been removed by the hands of the laborer in order to expose the floor of the car-body, the end or side of the same, to an extent that will permit the shovel to be readily introduced along the floor beneath the material to be removed and conveniently used for the purpose of removing said material.

wardly or downwardly below the lower face of the guide or shoveling-plate, so as to present no obstruction to the insertion of the shovel over the upper edge of the end-board D of the car-body. A hinge-rod E is inserted into a bearing F in the side G of the car-body,

and is passed through the same and into and through the half-hinge C of theshovelingplate B and enters a second bearing H in the other side of the car-body, near the upper edge of the latter and in line with the first bearing F. A nut I is then turned upon the projecting end of the hinge-rod E to secure the parts permanently in place. A similarlyconstructed shovel plateor guide is used at the other end of the car-body, so that the work of unloading the car can be greatly facilitated.

The same kind of shoveling-board can be used on covered box cars for unloading ear corn, potatoes, coke, &c., where the shovel will not ordinarily penetrate the mass. In the latter instance substantially the same construction or a slight modification of the same is used, and a brief description of the same, to a person familiar with the construction above described, will enable such a person to construct and use the latter form of shovel-guide or unloading attachment. In the latter construction the hinge-rod should be run from one end of the grain-door of the car to the other. 7

When it is desired to have the grain-door open, the shoveling-board can be turned up out of the way and the grain-door pushed back from the door-opening in the usual manner against'the side of the car-body.

The preferred form of the shovelingboard in the box car should be such that there will be one'board on one side or the front of the graindoor and one on the other side at the heel of the other graindoor, so that when let down these boards would pass each other, as in the form of an X. By this disposition of the boards the box car can be unloaded from either side of the car.

Where the shoveling-board is not desired to extend the entire width of the car-body, I employ eyebolts for the bearing rod to rest in, said rod having a head at one end and a threaded portion at the other end to receive a fastening-nut to secure the parts in place.

The operation of the board is substantially the same under all the instances noted herein.

here I attach the shoveling-board to the inner face of the end wall of a car-body, I cut the half-hinge O away at the points a a, to receive eyes I) b on the projecting ends of eyebolts c c, driven into the end wall of the car-body. The eyes of the bolts are introduced into their respective seats a a and the half-hinge C, and the rod E is inserted to place and the nut I turned on to secure the rod in its seats when it is desired to shovel beneath the board B. The latter, after its upper surface has been cleared, is turned up against the wall, (see dot-ted lines, Fig. 4,) so that the material that was formerly beneath the outboard B may be shoveled.

\Vhile the journal-rod of my shovelingboard may be supported in the grain-board of a car, it is obvious that it may be also supported at its elevated end in the side wall of a car or wagon, and in some cases, instead of having aligned hearing, as I have specifically described, I may employ a single bearing in the member to which the shovelingboard is attached, it being simply necessary to connect the elevated end of the shovelingboard in a hinged or pivoted manner.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. The combination, with a car-body provided with aligned bearings, of a shovelingboard hinged to a rod resting in said bear ings, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with a car-body having aligned bearings near its upper edge at its end, of a hinged shoveling-board or guide supported by a rod resting in said aligned bearings, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with a car-body having aligned bearings near its end in its side walls, of a shovel-board provided with a longitudinal sleeve or half-hinge along its upper edge, and a hinge-rod passed through said aligned bearing and sleeve or half-hinge and provided with a head at one end and a threaded portion at the other end, having a securing-nut turned thereon, substantially as specified.

4. The combination, with a-car-body having hearings in its side walls, of a shovelingboard provided with a downwardly-turned sleeve along its upper edge, and a hinge-rod having a head and a threaded portion, and a nut turned on the threaded portion of the hinge-rod, substantially as specified.

5. The combination, with a car-body provided with aligned bearings, of a shovelingboard provided with an integral sleeve along its upper edge, and a headed threaded hingerod having a securing-nut on its threaded portion, substantially as specified.

6. The combination, with a ear-body, of a shoveling-board hinged to one of the walls thereof and adapted to turn Within the body, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses. JONATHAN S. IIARSIIMAN. Witnesses:

HARRY ll. PRUGH; HARLOW E. Srmnc. 

